On Monday 11 March 2002 12:07, Carlo F. wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> I use LyX 1.1.6fix3 provided with GNU/Linux Mandrake 8.1
> distribution. On my PC is installed Tetex with latex 2e. I have a
> document written by LyX and I would like now to "format" it
> according a new document class package provided by an editor. I
> have download from the editor web site via ftp, such a code, with
> ".cls" and ".sty" files.
> Perhaps, is there someone so kind as to tell me what I have to do
> with such files, where I have to put them in order to use them
> within LyX ?
1. become root
2. copy the files to a directory where TeX can see them e.g.
/usr/share/texmk/tex/latex/mynewdirectory
3. run texhash
> And can I avoid to rewrite the whole old document (containing five
> float tables), for having it formatted accorting to the desidered
> new "format" ? How?
See the documentation with the class, if there is any. Normally it's
enough to put \usepackage{name_of_package} in the LaTeX preamble.
Robin
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Robin Turner
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